Something Cool We Saw Online: American Chairs

Arguing the merits of how American or un-American a chair is sorts of feels like creating an illustrated guide to properly cuffing one's pant legs — which is to say, it's just the kind of fun we have on the Internet. Men's-wear bloggers especially. And how perfect it is that just recently our friend Michael Williams at A Continuous Lean dissected just what makes an American lawn chair American: webbing, no straps with which to lug it on your back, no beer holders or other such new-technological nonsense, a handful of 90-degree angles. Did you know that webbed chairs are nearly being eliminated? Neither did we. But it is an American problem nonetheless. So Happy Fourth.

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